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Stephen Woods
June 19, 2013
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Transcript
Optimizing JavaScript Runtime Performance for Touch Stephen Woods @ysaw
Native-Like Experience
Hardware Core OS Core Services Media Cocoa Touch
Hardware Core OS Core Services Media Cocoa Touch WebKit JavaScript
Runtime WebCore
The Mobile Web is Slow
What Happens at runtime? • Fetch, format and Display Data
• Handle UI Events • Move Pixels
Fetching Data
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Caching: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's
problems
$.get('data.json', dataCallback);
$.get('/data.json', dataCallback); myDAL.getData('key', callback);
getData = function(key, callback) { if(cache[key]) return cache[key];
$.get('/data.json', function(data){ cache[key] = data; callback(data); } } myDAL.getData('key', callback);
window.localStorage['cache'] = JSON.stringify(cache);
TTL Writes Invalidate Cache
Eviction www.flickr.com/photos/75397401@N02/ 5mbs of localStorage Strings stored as UTF-16 Characters
Maximum Storage space: 2.5million Characters
Least Recently Used
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Computing the size of the Cache. JSON.stringify(localStorage).length
Handling Events
Event handling is a conversation
If a gesture is in progress, the UI must be
in motion.
Moving Pixels
30fps = 33.3ms Per Frame 60fps = 16.6ms Per Frame
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Write-Only DOM
getOffsetHeight : 74% slower than get className
If you can, cache the value, not the node
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var offsetCache = {}; function getOffsetHeight(id) {
if(offsetCache[id]) { return offsetCache[node.id]; } else { offsetCache[id] = document.getElementById(id).offsetHeight } }
this.nodePositionMap[thisId] = { top: thisNode.getY(), height: thisNode.get('offsetHeight'),
defer:photoList[i].defer ? {img_url: 'bar'}: false };
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background-‐image: 'foo.jpg'; background-‐size: 100%; transform: translate3d(10,10,1);
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User feedback comes first
isSwiping = 1;
function handleXHR(resp) { if(isSwiping) { setTimeout(function(){
handleXHR(resp); },20); } processData(desp); }
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• Load image ~ 300ms (async) • Find Faces ~
100ms (sync) • Compute Entropy Crop ~ 30ms (sync) • Smooth Animation (sync)
Run Animation in a Separate Thread
slide1.style.transition = transitionDuration +
's transform ease-‐out'; slide1.style.transform = computedEndFrame;
Run Slow Code in a Worker*
Run Slow Code in a Worker* *except on Android Browser
worker = new Worker('/smart-‐crop-‐worker.js');
UI Thread Handles Events and Orchestration
• Cache data where possible • Update the UI on
events, use transforms when possible • Multitask when you can, both with threads and yeilding
flickr.com/photos/39747297@N05/5230479916/ flickr.com/photos/pandameixiang/6784480227/ flickr.com/photos/ryfter/5196109310/ flickr.com/photos/howvin/4054392601/ flickr.com/photos/fdrlibrary/ @ysaw stephenwoods.net touch-interfaces.com flickr.jobs